Friday, September 18, 2015

BeatStreet Cleveland Saturday!

On Saturday September 19, 2015, Cleveland, OH will celebrate The National Beat Poetry Festival with the event BeatStreet Cleveland at the Barking Spider Tavern, 11310 Juniper Rd, from 3pm to 7pm, featuring poets and live music, with free admission.

YOU are invited to join us for this historic Happening!

Confirmed guests:

D.R. Wagner (California)

D.R.
Wagner is an author, visual artist, and musician. He founded press :
today : niagara in 1965 and Runcible Spoon in the late 60s, producing
over fifty magazines and chapbooks. He co-wrote The Egyptian Stroboscope
with d.a. levy and read with Jim Morrison of the Doors in a legendary
reading with Morrison and Michael McClure. He also has read with
Ferlinghetti, Al Winans, Anne Waldman, and many other poets over the
past forty years. Wagner's work is much published. He continues to
design interior carpeting and tapestry, as well as write, perform, and
publish poetry regularly.

Alex Gildzen (New Mexico)

Alex
Gildzen is a poet and artist who uses film as the basis of his work.
He entered Kent State University in 1961, and while still an
undergraduate had poems published in American Weave and Snowy Egret. He met d.a. levy in 1965; levy published him in the Buddhist Third Class JunkmailOracle. Hugh Fox included Gildzen in his 1973 anthology The Living Underground. Crisis Chronicles Press published his book Ohio Triangle earlier this year to celebrate his 72nd birthday. Find Gildzen at Arroyo Chamisa.

Theresa Göttl Brightman (Ohio)

Theresa
Göttl Brightman won first place the first time she competed in a poetry
slam. She has won numerous awards, and has been heard throughout Ohio
and points beyond, including Chicago's Vegan Mania, and 89.7 WOSU
radio. Her work has appeared in print and online publications including
Pudding Magazine and Rubbertop Review. Her full length collection of poetry is Stretching the Window
(Buffalo ZEF 2007); a new collection is due out in 2016 from Coda Crab
Press. You haven't experienced her poetry until you've seen and heard
her perform it!

John Burroughs (Ohio)
John Burroughs, writer, editor, musician, and composer, is the author of The Eater of the Absurd and numerous poetry chapbooks; his poem "Lens" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poems include "Cannot Believe William S. Burroughs Is Dead and "Allen Ginsberg Wants You". Since
2008 he has been editor/publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press.
Burroughs performs his dynamic poetry across the rust and coal belts.
His new book Beat Attitude (from NightBallet Press) will debut at BeatStreet Cleveland.

Joining John Burroughs: musician Étienne Massicotte:

Étienne Massicotte (Montreal)

Étienne Massicotte is a musician newly located to Cleveland, working as
a trumpeter, composer, and teacher. He is currently engaged with the
Tesla Orchestra of Case Western Reserve University, composing and
arranging music for a performance this fall to feature three musicians
of the Cleveland Orchestra and a spectacular array of lightning-emitting
beacons known as Tesla Coils. Previous engagements include appearances
with the Ashland Symphony and four seasons with the Ohio Light Opera
Festival Orchestra.

Ingrid Swanberg (Wisconsin)Ingrid Swanberg is the founder/publisher of Ghost Pony Press, and editor-in-chief of Abraxas Magazine. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Garrison Keillor has read her poetry on The Writer's Almanac. She co-authored D.A. Levy & the Mimeograph Revolution, and published a definitive collection of the work of d.a. levy, Zen Concrete & Etc. Her two new poetry collections are Ariadne & Other Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and Awake (Green Panda Press, 2014).

Larry Smith (Ohio)

Larry Smith is the biographer of Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He also has done biographical work
with Ingrid Swanberg in d.a. levy & the mimeograph revolution
(Bottom Dog Press). He has published numerous books of poetry, and
wrote and produced two films on Ohio authors James Wright and Kenneth
Patchen. Smith lives on the fringe of Cleveland in Huron, Ohio, where
he directs Bottom Dog Press publications.

Jim Lang (Ohio)

Jim Lang, poet, photographer, artist, in his own words:

born in th 40's died in th 50's thrived in th
60's loved in th 70's coasted in th 80's predicted in th 90's reprised in th
2K's ~ a poet/photographer he published in newspapers magazines and small press
books for 40 years ~ he taught at universities high & grades schools
free & controlled ~ he hung at galleries from columbus to toronto ~ &
he read & showed off & slept on walls & floors & lawns from sea
to shining sea ~ "a @ 5 made fotos @ 16 & pots @ 50 a phopopotographer
a little of each shows up"

Steven Smith (Ohio)

Steven Smith--poet, memoirist, photographer,
blogger, and collage/assemblage artist--has been writing poetry for
nearly five decades. For more than 20 years he published the famed ArtCrimes journal. He created a massive online art/poetry archive at www.agentofchaos.com, and a wide array of his poetry and collages have been published in the critically acclaimed Zen Over Zero: Selected Poems 1964-2008 (The City Poetry Press). Smith makes his home in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.

aaaaand the Peace, Love, & Music of Zach!

Zach Freidhof (Ohio)

Zach, recently named "Humanitarian of the
Year" by Akron Magazine, is a yogi, Kingian Nonviolence Trainer, and
World Peace Diet Facilitator. He is also a fantastic musician who
believes “We should manifest ourselves in exquisiteness every chance we
get.” Zach professes this mantra, his life’s philosophy, on his latest
release, The Antidote, his 15th release is as many years. With
a friend, he created the Akron Peace Project to spread nonviolence in
the self, the home, and the community. Coupled with his Love Initiative
movement, his music--naturally very hopeful and optimistic--has been
able to lend its voice to the power we all have to change ourselves and
the world. Learn more at www.zachmusic.net.

1 comment:

People who works there are some of the sweetest people I've met. Save yourself some time and just go to these venues in Chicago. Everyone there is sweet and ask how you've been, even though normally staff keep their heads down.